{"id":365491,"date":"2020-09-23T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T20:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=365491"},"modified":"2020-09-24T15:49:07","modified_gmt":"2020-09-24T19:49:07","slug":"massive-trump-rally-crowds-ignored-by-media-and-i-know-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2020\/09\/23\/massive-trump-rally-crowds-ignored-by-media-and-i-know-why\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Are These People? Massive Trump Rally Crowds Ignored by Media and I Know Why"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: I wish I could use that too. But I don\u2019t dare. I don\u2019t dare use either one of them. I just cracked a couple of jokes here to the staff, and their reaction is to shake their heads. They\u2019re laughing uncontrollably and then shaking their heads at the same time and saying, “You better not. You can\u2019t say that.” And, of course, they\u2019re right.<\/p>\n

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Anyway, how are you, my friends? It is great to have you with us. It\u2019s great to be with you. We have three hours of broadcast excellence straight ahead. The phone number if you want to join us today is 800-282-2882, and the email address, ElRushbo@eibnet.us.<\/p>\n

So President Trump, another rally, Moon Township by Pittsburgh last night. You know, folks, I have to tell you something. I watch these rallies. But more than that, I look at these crowds. Do you realize how big these crowds are? These crowds, especially in the past couple of weeks of rallies, these crowds have been bigger than any of the crowds in 2016. And the campaign releases photos of the crowd after the event or during the event. It\u2019s massive.<\/p>\n

And I have found myself asking a question. Who are these people? And I\u2019m not asking that in terms of being critical at all. I really would like to know who they are. Let me put it this way. Who is it that would, I know the weather\u2019s not cold yet, but it\u2019s in the sixties and fifties now in late September. These people are showing up from who knows where. I\u2019m sure nearby, but they\u2019re showing up and you don\u2019t just drive to the event here and spend a couple hours and leave.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ve gotta get there early if you want to get in. You\u2019ve gotta go through security. It\u2019s pretty much a multiple-hour commitment to go to one of these things. And you\u2019re not gonna get close enough to the president to get a selfie photo or a handshake, certainly not, or an autograph. The president pretty much scoots when these things are over, after he dances to YMCA. They play YMCA as the closing music when the president finishes. And he does his little dance and jive to it and then gets on the plane and splits.<\/p>\n

But there are literally thousands and thousands of people. They\u2019re being totally ignored by the media. It\u2019s as though they\u2019re not there. They are taken for granted. It\u2019s not assumed, and it\u2019s not even questioned what impact all these people are going to have on the election. It strikes me how odd it is that there isn\u2019t any curiosity about it. And I know why.<\/p>\n

I just watched television here before the big broadcast began. And there\u2019s some Democrat senator on named Chris Murphy. This was on Fox. And Chris Murphy is going on and on and on about how the Republican Party is just a cult. A cult? Have you all seen the way the casket of Ruth Ginsburg arrived at the Supreme Court today? If you want to see a cult, take a look at the way the left is handling the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg.<\/p>\n

Anyway. So this guy, this Senator Chris Murphy, says, “These guys, they\u2019re just a cult.” And he says (paraphrasing), “I\u2019ll give you the proof. The proof is that they are already unanimously supporting a nominee that they don\u2019t even know. They don\u2019t know who the nominee is. The president isn\u2019t gonna announce the nominee until Saturday at 5 o\u2019clock, and yet this cult party, the Republicans, are in total unity already.”<\/p>\n

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And I said, you know, that\u2019s very clever, Senator Murphy, but that\u2019s not the way to look at this. How about you people on the Democrat side? You are already destroying a nominee that you haven\u2019t seen yet. You have already begun the process that you engage in every time one of these things happens. You have already begun your attempt to destroy the nominee, and you don\u2019t know who the nominee is, and yet the Republicans are somehow a cult because they are supporting a nominee that they don\u2019t even know yet.<\/p>\n

The fact is they do know. Trump provided a list. And the fact of the matter is that anybody on that list is pretty much gonna be accepted, and particularly with the top two that are speculated here, Judge Lagoa and Judge Barrett. I mean, either one of those two would be a grand-slam home run. They\u2019ve been vetted before, Senator.<\/p>\n

They are on the judiciary as is, already out there on the circuit court. So they\u2019ve been through this. You people in the Senate, the Democrats, know who they are. You\u2019ve vetted them. Trump gave us a list, so we know who these people are. They\u2019ve got judicial track records. You don\u2019t have to be a cultist. This is not a blind acceptance. It\u2019s not as though we don\u2019t know who the nominee is gonna be. We just don\u2019t know specifically which one it\u2019s…<\/p>\n

APPLE WATCH: (interrupting)<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, I was not just washing my hands. Why do you think I was just washing my hands? My watch just asked me if I was washing my hands. Do you know the watch now (rubbing hands) when you wash your hands, it records it, it urges you to do it and came out long before even COVID was a big deal. (rubbing hands) I must have been rubbing my hands together like when you wash your hands.<\/p>\n

\"\"The watch, the microphone hears water running and thinks it knows and so it asks you. That has to be what happened here. So, at any rate, they can\u2019t stop the nominee. They don\u2019t have the votes. Now, a clarification about Mitt Romney. Mitt Romney has not promised to vote for the nominee. Mitt Romney said that he\u2019s not going to vote against a floor vote for whoever the nominee is.<\/p>\n

But he is going to wait to make sure the nominee is qualified. Now, Romney is like everybody else. Romney knows who it\u2019s gonna be — one of two, one of three. Romney. If he wanted to, could announce his support, but he\u2019s gonna wait until Trump actually names the judge. Trump\u2019s out there saying, “Oh, man the Republicans have never been more unified than they are now.”<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s true in any number of ways you might want to look at it. You look at 92% of the Republican Party — the voters; the base, if you will — supports Trump. Eighty-two percent are in favor of one of these two judges being nominated. The Democrats are just frustrated that as it appears on paper, they can\u2019t stop the nominee.<\/p>\n

But you know what, folks? It\u2019s not gonna stop them from trying. They\u2019re gonna do what they do. Once there\u2019s hearings happen — three days, four days, whatever the limit is — they\u2019re gonna do what they do. They\u2019re going to do everything they can to destroy whoever the nominee is. But I think it\u2019s classic. Senator Murphy (impression), “These people are a cult. They\u2019re supporting a nominee they don\u2019t even know yet.”<\/p>\n

And you guys are out trying to destroy a nominee you don\u2019t even know yet — and, furthermore, with you guys, it won\u2019t matter who the nominee is. The nominee could be St. Peter and you people would be out there trying to destroy him, if the Republicans were trying to put him on the Supreme Court. Doesn\u2019t matter who the nominee is as far as you Democrats are concerned.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: No, no, no. I did not lose my place. I\u2019m gonna finish my thought on who these people showing up at the Trump rallies are \u2019cause I think it\u2019s deep. I think the answer to the question is a profundity in and of itself. It\u2019s massive the numbers of people showing up at these rallies. And, you know, they were totally ignored in 2016. They were totally missed.<\/p>\n

Back then, if you recall, the conventional wisdom was that the size of the crowd at rallies was irrelevant to elections, to how much strength a candidate had. It was irrelevant to votes. The conventional wisdom was that rallies, you could have beaucoup people. In other words, it didn\u2019t matter that Hillary Clinton was only drawing 200 or 250 and Trump was drawing 15,000. It didn\u2019t matter \u2019cause crowd size doesn\u2019t tell you anything.<\/p>\n